In terms of sticking your neck out for someone else I was meaning something that causes you pain or loss.
Think of the Capt Johnny Blogs flying his Boeing Glass Cockpit for JOT6 airlines on 60 something K per annum, bugger all duty pay and no crew food and wondering if his outfit will last through the economic gloom and fuel price crisis - now he could get a better job with OS with much better T's and C's yet some of you guys expect him to pass up the opportunity in order to protect what you perceive to be a threat to your T's and C's whch are already miles ahead of his................!
Can you see why he is likely to go ahead anyway regardless of playground name calling.
As for BALPA who seem so opposed to OS, can any BALPA type tell me why OS is different to the EasyJet continental salaries and T's and C's which BALPA have agreed? EasyJet's continental bases aren't even a subsidary airline - one AOC and one airline yet different T's and C's and I hear BALPA have agreed the new conditions for pilots at those bases.
No one in BA is losing their job or having a pay cut as a result of OS.